Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Chocolate Look Alikes

Back in the days of King Henry VIII's court, medieval chefs used to create 'sotelties' - highly elaborate meals and desserts that were made to resemble something else (like cakes that look like castles). In that spirit, I present you with some of The Chocolate Box's best look-alikes - pictured next to a photo of the real thing. Can you tell the difference?

For the answer, click the chocolate look-alike and it will take you to the product on The Chocolate Box's website!










Top: Chocolate Olives: Exquisite Dry Roasted Almonds, enrobed in milk and white chocolate.
Bottom: Chocolate Rocks: Delicious milk chocolate rocks, they look like rocks, but they're safe to eat - sweet milk chocolate in a thin candy shell.

Monday, November 10, 2008

The Dark List

The Dark List was something I created a few months ago for dark chocolate afficianados. It is, of course, a list of quality dark chocolate products, with their corresponding cocoa percentages.

But first, a little bit about dark chocolate:
If you have a quality dark or bittersweet chocolate, you can sometimes rate it for it's chocolatey-ness on a scale of percentage of cocoa solids. So 80% is extra dark, 70% is dark!, 50% is dark but bittersweet (also sweet), but much lower than this and you're in milk chocolate territory.

Some of the products on the list have additional ingredients to dark chocolate, and some of these may include dairy or nuts, etc, so you should look at the ingredient listing of any product if you are in doubt about what it may contain.

Now on to ...
THE DARK LIST

Dark Chocolate Happy Heart Hamper Box

Belgian Bar - Noir Bittersweet** - 70%

Dark Wraparounds* ** - 63%
*(Smaller quantities without custom wrappers can be purchased from our stores)

Single Origin Grenade 135g Box (jar not available) - 60%

Dark Block, 100g** - 55%
Dark Bar 50g** - 55%
Dark Chocolate Novelty Frogs** - 55%
Dark Chocolate Novelty Hearts** - 55%

Dark Chocolate Almonds - 55%
Dark Chocolate Hazelnuts - 55%
Dark Chocolate Orange Straws - 55%
Dark Chocolate Coffee Beans - 55%
Dark Chocolate Ginger - 55%
Dark Chocolate Marzipan Bar - 55%
Dark Chocolate Licorice - 55%
Dark Chocolate Raspberry Jellies - 55%

Dark Chocolate Triple Almond Block - 54%
Dark Chocolate Triple Honeycomb Block - 54%

Dark Organic Block, 100g - 52%

Dark Chocolate Peppermint Truffle

Dark Sugarfree Block 100g - 46%

We also have a pure dark chocolate assortment: Dark Chocolate Classic Assortment and Dark Chocolate Rocky Road.

** Solid chocolate